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hello and welcome to woody’s!

you’re going to meet lots of fine people here, and you will always, some way, some how, or some when, get an answer to your questions, whatever they may be. that having been said, may i offer you a suggestion to your problem? instead of talking to microsoft (by the bye, i am amazed that you got something from them! ), why not ask mcafee tech support? i am certain that they have some sort of tech support. hey, you might even get it for free.

i have been having problems with a link and symantec. i wrote to them, explained the problem, and they told me how to fix it. maybe mcafee can do the same? hey, it can’t hurt to try, can it? a fix has to be better than just being told to disable something that you paid hard, cold (unless it was folding money in your pocket; then it’s warm, soft) cash.

i wish you well with solving your problem, and i hope it’s soon. take care and God bless.

ladyleadfoot!!!

hello and welcome to woody’s!

you’re going to meet lots of fine people here, and you will always, some way, some how, or some when, get an answer to your questions, whatever they may be. that having been said, may i offer you a suggestion to your problem? instead of talking to microsoft (by the bye, i am amazed that you got something from them! ), why not ask mcafee tech support? i am certain that they have some sort of tech support. hey, you might even get it for free.

i have been having problems with a link and symantec. i wrote to them, explained the problem, and they told me how to fix it. maybe mcafee can do the same? hey, it can’t hurt to try, can it? a fix has to be better than just being told to disable something that you paid hard, cold (unless it was folding money in your pocket; then it’s warm, soft) cash.

i wish you well with solving your problem, and i hope it’s soon. take care and God bless.

ladyleadfoot!!!

phil doesn’t use MSN messenger or any other chat in the world. i use it, occasionally. why would MSN messenger affect OE? you told me to: “Try searching here for the more common Windows Messenger and see if that helps.” where is here? do you mean go to Search here on the site, type in Windows Messenger, and see what comes back? or was there a link that was/is missing? sorry if i seem dense, but this thing has me so in a twist that i am not quite sure i mean, much less what anyone else means, especially someone who is trying to help me!

it’s bad enough that i am having problems with this, but now i am being plagued with a problem with Norton Internet Security, too, which is another board all together. ah well.

thanks for your suggestion. i think i’ll go wander over to the Search box and flail away. until the next time, take care and God bless.

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ladyleadfoot!!!

phil doesn’t use MSN messenger or any other chat in the world. i use it, occasionally. why would MSN messenger affect OE? you told me to: “Try searching here for the more common Windows Messenger and see if that helps.” where is here? do you mean go to Search here on the site, type in Windows Messenger, and see what comes back? or was there a link that was/is missing? sorry if i seem dense, but this thing has me so in a twist that i am not quite sure i mean, much less what anyone else means, especially someone who is trying to help me!

it’s bad enough that i am having problems with this, but now i am being plagued with a problem with Norton Internet Security, too, which is another board all together. ah well.

thanks for your suggestion. i think i’ll go wander over to the Search box and flail away. until the next time, take care and God bless.

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ladyleadfoot!!!

thanks. that did it. i don’t know whether the spam attacker did it, or i did it by inadvertently clicking the column. right after i installed mailshell, the list was all mangled, without what seemed to be any rhyme or reason, except that all related e-mails were grouped together. i kind of liked that idea, except that i couldn’t tell where my new, incoming e-mails were. i had to hunt for them. when i clicked on the Received column heading, it straightened them out, upside down. i did it again, and now the new ones are at the top, and the older ones are toward the bottom. thanks again for the help! take care and God bless!

thanks. that did it. i don’t know whether the spam attacker did it, or i did it by inadvertently clicking the column. right after i installed mailshell, the list was all mangled, without what seemed to be any rhyme or reason, except that all related e-mails were grouped together. i kind of liked that idea, except that i couldn’t tell where my new, incoming e-mails were. i had to hunt for them. when i clicked on the Received column heading, it straightened them out, upside down. i did it again, and now the new ones are at the top, and the older ones are toward the bottom. thanks again for the help! take care and God bless!

(Edited by HansV to provide link to MSKB article – see Help 19)

hello!

i have the same problem and went looking for an answer, as i couldn’t find one here. i found a sort of answer at microsoft. go look in the knowledge base; the number you want is Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 233073. it gives you a workaround of prefacing all entries with an apostrophe. i guess it’s better than nothing, but you’d think that there’d be something easy and global for this, as a lot of people seem to want to do this. i guess microsoft just wants to make it hard for us, eh? hope his helps you. take care and God bless.

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ladyleadfoot!!!

(Edited by HansV to provide link to MSKB article – see Help 19)

hello!

i have the same problem and went looking for an answer, as i couldn’t find one here. i found a sort of answer at microsoft. go look in the knowledge base; the number you want is Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 233073. it gives you a workaround of prefacing all entries with an apostrophe. i guess it’s better than nothing, but you’d think that there’d be something easy and global for this, as a lot of people seem to want to do this. i guess microsoft just wants to make it hard for us, eh? hope his helps you. take care and God bless.

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ladyleadfoot!!!

to both leif and jscher2000:

thank you, thank you, thank you!!! after having gotten the computer rebuilt yet another time, after having had to back up my files yet another time, in yet another arcane .pst file, i have FINALLY gotten all of them to where they belong! i have found all of my lost e-mails, for which i thank you so very much. now that i know how to do it, and have copied your instructions to a word file, that i will NOT lose, i’ll never again lose my e-mail. i am so thankful. i had always wondered how woody managed to keep all his e-mail for so many years, in so many .pst files; now i know. thanks once again; your help has been, as always, invaluable. take care and God bless.

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ladyleadfoot!!!

to both leif and jscher2000:

thank you, thank you, thank you!!! after having gotten the computer rebuilt yet another time, after having had to back up my files yet another time, in yet another arcane .pst file, i have FINALLY gotten all of them to where they belong! i have found all of my lost e-mails, for which i thank you so very much. now that i know how to do it, and have copied your instructions to a word file, that i will NOT lose, i’ll never again lose my e-mail. i am so thankful. i had always wondered how woody managed to keep all his e-mail for so many years, in so many .pst files; now i know. thanks once again; your help has been, as always, invaluable. take care and God bless.

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ladyleadfoot!!!

i had originally copied the files to a CD via Nero. once i reformatted the hard drive, i copied them back to the hard drive like this: i right-clicked the folders (named Office and Archive) then used CTRL-V to paste them back to the hard drive. i opened Outlook, then double clicked on each of them to open. i then got the blank, new, e-mail, with the file folder at the bottom, just like an attachment. when i clicked on it, i got what i explained in the previous post. hope that answers your question. never thought that i’d have such a hard time trying to open a file folder. i’m almost tempted to save each and every file individually to the hard drive, and keep them that way, instead of using the .pst file. well, thanks for your time; i really appreciate it. take care and God bless.

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ladyleadfoot!!!

i had originally copied the files to a CD via Nero. once i reformatted the hard drive, i copied them back to the hard drive like this: i right-clicked the folders (named Office and Archive) then used CTRL-V to paste them back to the hard drive. i opened Outlook, then double clicked on each of them to open. i then got the blank, new, e-mail, with the file folder at the bottom, just like an attachment. when i clicked on it, i got what i explained in the previous post. hope that answers your question. never thought that i’d have such a hard time trying to open a file folder. i’m almost tempted to save each and every file individually to the hard drive, and keep them that way, instead of using the .pst file. well, thanks for your time; i really appreciate it. take care and God bless.

smiles-
ladyleadfoot!!!

i had saved Outlook and Office to their own CD, using Nero. i copied both folders back to my hard drive by right-clicking the folder, then using CTRL-V to paste the entire folder into my folder (carol’s stuff). i see the point that you make about the best way to open the files in inside Outlook. i am afraid that i don’t understand how to do so. i have never seen or used a Personal Folders File. is that something that is automatically created in Outlook? will it allow me to take an entire folder and drop it into the newly created folder? i’m beginning to believe that maybe i should have stuck with outlook express. no, not gonna do it. i’m just hardheaded enough to learn how to use the darned program. thanks again for your help; i’ll holler again if i need more. take care and God bless.

smiles-
ladyleadfoot!!!

i had saved Outlook and Office to their own CD, using Nero. i copied both folders back to my hard drive by right-clicking the folder, then using CTRL-V to paste the entire folder into my folder (carol’s stuff). i see the point that you make about the best way to open the files in inside Outlook. i am afraid that i don’t understand how to do so. i have never seen or used a Personal Folders File. is that something that is automatically created in Outlook? will it allow me to take an entire folder and drop it into the newly created folder? i’m beginning to believe that maybe i should have stuck with outlook express. no, not gonna do it. i’m just hardheaded enough to learn how to use the darned program. thanks again for your help; i’ll holler again if i need more. take care and God bless.

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ladyleadfoot!!!

thanks for your advice, Leif. i copied the file to the My Documents folder, then did as you said. now, there’s more trouble. i have two files: Outlook.pst and Archive.pst. when i tried to open either of them, i got a blank e-mail (just like a new one), with the file at the bottom, like either a forward or an attachment. i tried to open the file, and got this warning message:

Attachment Security Warning

Warning!

This file may contain a virus that can be harmful to your computer. You must save this file to disk before it can be opened. It is important to be VERY certain that this file is safe before you open it.

File name: outlook.pst
Type: Office Data File

it offered me the choice of Save to Disk… or Cancel, so, i clicked on Save to Disk… and told the ‘puter to put it in the folder “carol’s stuff”. i then got this message:

Microsoft Outlook

Outlook cannot save the URL to a file. CAn’t find this file. Make sure the path and file are correct.

it offered me the choice of OK or Cancel, so i chose OK. after that, i tried to close the open/new e-mail, and got this message:

Do you want to save changes? Yes, No, or Cancel

i chose No, backed out, sat and thought a minute, and came here, to ask for more help. i don’t know what to do now. i am completely lost. could/would you please point me in the right direction? thanks again for your help, past, present and future. looking forward to hearing from you, sooner or later. until then, take care and God bless.

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ladyleadfoot!!!